Professional Polish for the Indie Publisher ?Step Two: Become an Expert
by Traci Tyne Hilton @TraciTyneHilton When I was a newly-wed I stumbled across a book at the library about how to become a professional speaker. I devoured it while sitting on the dryer in the communal laundry room of our little apartment complex. I knew with every fiber of my being that this world of professional speaking was the only one in which I could be a fully happy professional adult. The trick was, to get into the world, you had to be an expert. I was an expert in nothing. I had a bachelor�s degree in history--focus �Western Hemisphere,� a job assisting the Josten�s travelling salesmen with his caps, gowns, and class ring sales, a small taste of success as a playwright, a year of Bible school, and some short term mission trips on my CV. None of that qualified me as an expert. So, I returned the book to the library sad that I�d never get to do the thing I was sure God had created me to do. A few years later I was a new mom with a cute baby. I was very bored, so I started a ...